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Meet Rare Sea Wolves Who Live Off The Ocean And Can Swim For Hours

Along the wild Pacific coast of British Columbia, there lives a population of the sea wolves. “We know from exhaustive DNA studies that these wolves are genetically distinct from their continental kin,” says McAllister. “They are behaviourally distinct, swimming from island to island and preying on sea animals. They are also morphologically distinct — they are smaller in size and physically different from their mainland counterparts,” says Ian McAllister, an award-winning photographer who has been studying these animals for almost two decades.

McAllister captured the magic of these wolves in breath-taking pictures. As he swam towards them, “the curious canines approached him so closely that he could hear them grunting into his snorkel. He took several frames, then pushed back into deeper water without daring to look up,” writes the bioGraphic.

One could almost call these sea wolves pescatarians – 90 percent of their food comes directly from the ocean, with a fourth of it coming from eating salmon. On top of having distinctive food patterns, sea wolves are also excellent swimmers, with their farthest record being swimming to an archipelago 7.5 miles from the nearest landmass.

@tim major - Mammals did progress from the sea to land. However, once on land, some took to the air (bats) and others eventually returned to the seas. All oceanic mammals were at one time land-dwelling.

Mammals first evolved from reptiles specifically therapsids towards the end of the Triassic period and coexisted with dinosaurs in the Mesozoic period, after the extinction of the dinosaurs they developed into the larger forms we're more familiar with now along with other rodent forms. The colder period that would have occurred after the EE if the popular theory of meteorite is correct would have favoured fur for survival.

@tim major - Mammals did progress from the sea to land. However, once on land, some took to the air (bats) and others eventually returned to the seas. All oceanic mammals were at one time land-dwelling.

Mammals first evolved from reptiles specifically therapsids towards the end of the Triassic period and coexisted with dinosaurs in the Mesozoic period, after the extinction of the dinosaurs they developed into the larger forms we're more familiar with now along with other rodent forms. The colder period that would have occurred after the EE if the popular theory of meteorite is correct would have favoured fur for survival.